CHAZAQ's Tehillim Treasures | Episode #46: Chapters 91-92 | with Rabbi Yechiel Spero

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there are many people there are mum's children there are aunus there are grues there are families that do not have simple Essentials for chabus and for life whatever they need chickens for shabas is there to provide please do your utmost to help in any way you can this week we will be learning peric Sadi Alf and Sadi Bay chapter 91 and 92 as we continue this wonderful journey to D's Timeless Treasures and Capal Sadi Al is one of my favorites who am I to have a favorite but it's one of my favorites and the reason is because this cap is a a book or a chapter that I wrote a book on called the the prayer of protection and that's exactly what it is it's a capital that clais throughout the generations has recited as a means of protection and let me explain whenu was fighting with the Malin to bring the down to CL he wanted to be protected from the malim this was the capital he recited when the went to war and faced theim and the mavim the helist and the yonim the Greeks this is the capital this is the chapter they recited during Co there was tremendous amount of emphasis placed on saying certain Capital certain chapters to protect us from the disease and we learned that in the times of Riker there was a disease called kalera and he recommended along with to say these this one chapter 91 per Al the when was under siege in 1948 the said that everybody should have cap on their lips should be fluent in their lips and on their mouths because this is the capital that hasem sits and he protects us additionally every M of shamas as we enter the new week and in a sense we enter the danger zone and shabas we are infused with kadha We Are Holy we are pure we are really somewhat protected right keeps the shabus shab protects us and so we're really safe on shabus in many ways but then as we begin the transition from Kes from Holiness to a weak of mundane the week of the profane then we need something to hold on to we need something that will escort us something that we can carry with us no different than when somebody goes to war and so we recite this capital and there's one more time when this capital is recited and that is by a Leva by a Leva it is customary as we escort the mace as we escort the person who was nifter to their final burying burial place their final destination on their Journey the Journey of life and now as they enter and walk through that pror walk through that Corridor one final time or are carried through the corridor between and Hab we carry the coffin and we recite seven times because this is the capital the prayer of protection and I want to share with you a remarkable finding something that I discovered when I was writing the saer on and just to let you know you know when I first recommended that we do this to artscroll Art scroll said a a whole safer on yoser it seems a bit much it happens to be that that week I got a safer called K and in that safer there was a whole few chapters on and I learned up the Su really well just to create an outline and they said okay we'll go with it and barem received much feedback from people that it's been something where they find much Solace and comfort and they feel more protected listen to this in World War one there was many many battles that took place and unfortunately many many casualties but there was one Brigade they were the 91st Brigade this is not a Jewish Brigade not a Jewish Army from the British Army and the general was General Allenby he was a religious man and he gave every Soldier something called the soldiers s PS a m which is the soldiers Capital his chapter and he printed up chapter 91 V that every Soldier would be able to carry it in his pocket right near his heart in most of the battles in that region there was a 90% fatality rate 90% of the soldiers never came back home but in the 91st Brigade throughout the year plus time that they were in this particular region not one soldier lost his life half flavella it's just remarkable just imagine for a moment if a gentile re cites the chapter the capital is so powerful that will protect them just imagine the children of how precious and treasured this capital is for them strongly encourage you to read the capital Embrace its words find ourselves under the protection and Under the Umbrella of aes's love his warmth his compassion and his protection and you will feel so much closer one final note is gatria of two of the names of the is 26 K the shame of Al what we call the shame of AD the name of Al is AD no is gatria 65 the name of Hashem represents mercy and compassion the name of Al nun has the letters it which means din there's mercy and compassion and there's din the truth is is that sometimes we feel protected because Hashem is merciful sometimes we are protected and Hashem does good for us only because it's then sometimes we need D sometimes we need judgment we need consequences we need to be punished but Hashem always puts those two together there's always Rahman there's always compassion within the den we now move on to the next cap happens to be that as I'm recording this it's shabas in just a few hours and so I'm so excited to be able to share this in this capital M there's an odity it's a little strange because if you read through the words it has nothing to do with shabas what a strange sheer sh Y for the day of chabas it's the song that the Lev would sing chabas it doesn't talk about chabas you know what it talks about it talks about that Harish who some say was the one who composed this Capital it talks about chuva and the Chua that Cen had to do for the terrible AA of killing his brother h m reintroduced his capital and so we have to understand what is this Capital about in order for us to understand it properly we go to the end and please indulge me for a moment we talk about a sadic a righteous man will flourish like like a datom like a cedar in the Lebanon he will grow tall there are two types of sadik the first sadic is somebody who works on making himself better and he's constantly in a state ofous of connection to Hashem he is rewarded because he's being close to Hashem but he's only a sadic for himself such a person is compared to an arz the cedar the cedar is the tallest tree it's awesome however the cedar is Barren it Bears no fruit when you're solely in it for yourself it doesn't give off pis it doesn't give off fruit there's a second type of tadic who's compared to a T compared to a day tree he brings Yen back to their Roots he increases the m in this world the good deeds and just like a date tree he gives off fruit a person might think to himself I want to be as tall as possible I want to be like an arz I want to be like a cedar tree I don't want to be like a fruit tree because how tall is a fruit tree the sadic who gives off the fruit will not suffer he will end up being like the arz he'll be like the cedar there's a beautiful story of rski one of the Giants of Our Generation in picha and school lein once asked his students what they felt the secret was behind schu's remarkable success and one student said that it was because he was a genius in learning another one attributed it to the fact that he was a Masid but ratul said another reason he said it's because his mides were incredible and he said when the P established the office orphanage many children had been orphaned from the Holocaust and they found a home and he asked moovi to send his two sons to learn in the orphanage and they saw that rovski came there quite often and he would spend up to two hours teaching little children what was he teaching them rash he taught them Olive Bays here was the God lador could have spent his time I want to be an arz no willing to be a became the rebi of his generation until next time Z